Garden Party

Leek and potato soup is a simple dish that can be enjoyed in two ways, hot or cold. There is some debate about whether it is a purely French or American creation, but the key players as told by the sous chef in this episode are Jules Gouffé and Louis Diat.
Jules Gouffé was … [Read more...] about Classic Vichyssoise

There is nothing that says Summer has just arrived like a rhubarb-strawberry pie. The two are ready to harvest about the same time so it makes sense that they were put into pie. A crumble pie gives you the best of both the pie and crumble, with a pie crust on the bottom and … [Read more...] about Easy Rhubarb Strawberry Crumble Pie

The Victorians were obsessed with rhubarb. Introduced at the time of Queen Victoria's coronation, the commemorative Victorian variety of rhubarb was easy to grow, reliably robust and consistently sweet and tender, Victoria rhubarb was a runaway smash hit from the … [Read more...] about Amazing Healthy Rhubarb Puffs

This super moist lemon cake became famous after it impressed Humphrey Bogart back in the day. It comes from Mamma Agata, whose family started an amazing cooking school, situated on the Amalfi coast. It is on my bucket list to travel there one day. … [Read more...] about Mamma Agata’s Famous Lemon Cake

We have been drinking iced tea in North America since the 1900s. At the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904, Richard Belchynden, a tea merchant, found that adding ice to his hot teas was a big hit with visitors coping with the heat.
While most of us enjoy an iced tea in the … [Read more...] about Traditional Sweet Tea